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TOKYO-YOKOHAMA

VACUUM OIL Co. OF NEW YORK-No. 1,

Yurakucho Itchome, Kojimachi-ku

J. W. Webb, manager for North Japan J. G. S. Gausden, asst. do. do. N. Brunn, manager, Yokohama Office E. H. Spence, do.

do.

K. Yamaguchi, repres., Hokkaido T. Matsui, repres., Northern District

VOGT, DR. KARL-1, Yuraku-cho Itchome,

Kojimachi-ku

VORSITZENDER DES KIRCHENVORSTANDS

R. Lehmann

Schatzmeister-K. Meissner

Pfarrer-Schroeder, Koishikawa Kami-

tomisaka, 23

WATSON, WILLIAM R., M.B.

M.B. (Dublin), M.R.C.S., D.T. M. (Liverpool), Akasaka Hospital-17, Hikawa-cho, Hakasaka Teleph. 2583 (Shimbashi)

;

WINCKLER & Co.-2, Minami Konyacho Kyobashi-ku; Teleph. 949 Kyobashi; Tel. Ad: Winckler, Tokyo

F. Danckwerts (Hamburg) J. Westphalen

do.

F. Fachtmann (Yokohama) F. Gensen (Kobe)

G. Selig (Kobe)

A. Dreyer

E. Kramer

WESTON, A.-1, Motosukiya-cho Itchome- Kyobashi-ku. Head Office: 40A, Yama- shita-cho, Yokohama ; Teleph. No. 2,436 (Shimbashi), Tel. Ad: Weston

YAMATAKE & Co., Importers of Machinery and Tools-No. 21, Minami Demmacho Sanchome, Kyobashi-ku; Tel. Ad: Yam- atakeco; L. D. Teleph. Nos. 353 and 1343 (Kyobashi)

Partners T. Yamaguchi, P. Kummel

YONEI SHOTEN, Importers and Exporters, Merchants and Contractors, Agents for principal Manufacturers, Engineers, and Insurance Cos.-Head Office: 12, Ni- chome Ginza

ZEISS, CARL (Goshi Kaisha), Importers of Scientific Instruments and Apparatus -33A, Akashi-cho, Tsukiji; Teleph. Nos. 3060 and 259 (Kyobashi); Tel. Ad: Zeiss

Max Fischer (Jena) Leo Römisch

I. G. Römisch C. Billmeyer, M.E. H. Wissmer

YOKOHAMA

Yokohama is the principal Treaty port of Japan, and was opened to foreign trade in July, 1859. It is situated on the Bay of Yokohama, a small bay on the western side of the Gulf of Yedo, in lat. 35 deg. 26 min. 11 sec. N., and long. 139 deg. 39 min. 20 sec., in the island of Honshiu, and is distant about eighteen miles from the capital, with which it is connected by a line of railway. The town having sprung up from a poor fishing village only, since the site was selected for a treaty port, instead of the little town of Kanagawa, possesses few attractions for the visitor. The scenery around, however, is hilly and pleasing, and

and on clear days the snow-crowned summit and graceful outlines of Fuji-san, a volcanic mountain 12,370 feet high- celebrated in Japanese literature and depicted on innumerable native works of art is most distinctly visible, though some seventy-five miles distant. The native portion of Yokohama is compactly built of low houses with tiled roofs. The town is divided into two nearly equal parts, the western half being occupied by what was known, before the abolition of extra-territoriality, foreign settlement. Beyond the plain on which the town is built rises a sort of semi-circle of low hills called "The Bluff," which is thickly dotted with handsons foreign villas and dwelling-houses in various styles of architecture, all stan ling in pretty gardens. From these dwellings charming prospects are obtainable. Along the water-front runs a good road called the Bund, on which, facing the water, stand many of the principal houses and hotels, and the United Club.

The streets are fairly paved, curbed, and drained. The English Episcopal, the French Catholic and the